The Swiss army knife of smoke screens
Setting off smoke bombs is more than good fun on the Fourth of July. The military uses smoke grenades in dangerous situations to provide...
Scientists create diodes made of light
Photonics researchers at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have achieved the extra-ordinary by creating a diode consisting of light that can be used, for...
Democratizing science: Researchers make neuroscience experiments easier to share, reproduce
Over the past few years, scientists have faced a problem: They often cannot reproduce the results of experiments done by themselves or their peers.
This...
Entomologist confirms first Saharan farming 10,000 years ago
By analysing a prehistoric site in the Libyan desert, a team of researchers from the universities of Huddersfield, Rome and Modena & Reggio Emilia...
Mice change their appearance as a result of frequent exposure to humans
Dogs, cows, sheep, horses, pigs, and birds -- over the past 15,000 years, our ancestors domesticated dozens of wild animals to keep them as...
Rare metals on Mars and Earth implicate colossal impacts
New research has revealed that a giant impact on Mars more than four billion years ago would explain the unusual amount of "iron loving"...
Researchers measure gene activity in single cells
For biologists, a single cell is a world of its own: It can form a harmonious part of a tissue, or go rogue and...
Researchers uncover framework for how stem cells determine where to form replacement structures
Researchers at Whitehead Institute have uncovered a framework for regeneration that may explain and predict how stem cells in adult, regenerating tissue determine where...
Are high blood glucose levels an effect rather than the cause of diabetes?
Insulin resistance and elevated blood glucose levels are considered to be the cause of type 2 diabetes. However, scientists from the German Cancer Research...
Graphene oxide nanosheets could help bring lithium-metal batteries to market
Lithium-metal batteries—which can hold up to 10 times more charge than the lithium-ion batteries that currently power our phones, laptops and cars—haven't been commercialized...
Scientists discover genomic ancestry of Stone Age North Africans from Morocco
An international team of researchers, led by Johannes Krause and Choongwon Jeong from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (Jena,...
